"It isn't your fault," Nigel argues gently. "There's no reason you should feel this way. It isn't as if you asked to have someone like him as your father." Smiling, he adds, "If anything, I'm the one who is unworthy to know you. My hands are stained with the blood of countless people and, if ordered, I'd even kill my sister's only friend. A man like me doesn't deserve the happiness you've given me, Arlia." Sighing, he rests his chin on top of her head and whispers, "No matter what you've done or what others have done to you, I will never love you any less than I do now. If anything, I'll only love you more as time passes."